“The police are victims of uninhibited violence against them”, reacted Wednesday, October 27 on franceinfo Sonia Fibleuil, divisional commissioner and spokesperson for the General Directorate of the National Police (DGPN), while police officers from the anti-crime squad were targeted by gunfire Monday evening in Lyon near from a deal point, in the Duchère district. CRS were sent to reinforce this neighborhood on Tuesday.
Is this violence the consequence of the fight against drug trafficking?
The police are victims of uninhibited violence towards them, which generally exists in society, since others suffer the same fate, such as teachers or elected officials, who are sometimes attacked … However, since we represent an institution of authority, it is mainly on the police that this violence is exercised. We will continue to fight against drug trafficking in all neighborhoods, including those that are sensitive. Indeed, our work, which consisted in increasing the number of police operations on the deal points, had the consequence of disturbing this traffic. They react to be able to make it last.
This kind of facts were observed previously in very sensitive areas. They now occur in territories less known to be affected by drug trafficking. Does this mean that drug trafficking is present everywhere on French territory?
Drug trafficking is scattered all over the country. We obviously have an effective action, moreover the anti-narcotics office has not been unworthy. It centralizes the exchange of information within operational units on narcotics and also carries out in-depth, investigative work, which sometimes takes it internationally. It therefore goes beyond our territory in the strict sense, it goes beyond our neighborhoods.
What are the solutionss to stop this trafficking?
We are mobilizing doubly. On the one hand, we continue to monitor these points of deal and destabilize the compartmentalized tasks between purchase, transport and distribution, with a subcontracting system, between point of sale managers, lookouts and ‘nurses’, who are often the first to be arrested. At the second level, we find in-depth legal investigations, on the underlying, which lead us to deeply destabilize the trafficking, via the arrival of narcotics in the cities and the money collected.